easyLab are proud to announce the signing of a license agreement with Max Planck Innovation, the technology transfer agency of the Max Planck Society, which will enable the company to produce and commercialise under exclusive rights, an electro-discharge machine (EDM) for gasket drilling developed by Prof. Reinhard Boehler and Dr Frank Helleis at the MPI-Chemistry in Mainz/Germany.

An EDM driller is an essential instrument in high pressure research.  It allows researchers that use diamond anvils cells to drill the necessary holes in the gaskets in order to accommodate the samples. 

Through this agreement easyLab will bring to market an EDM driller with vastly superior technology and ease of use to what is currently available.  Aptly named as the Boehler μDriller, it offers higher drilling accuracy, better control of the drilling parameters and, by a considerable margin, the easiest of use.  All of these factors combine to make the Boehler μDriller equally well suited to experts in high pressure research as well as new entrants to the field.

Dr Christophe Thessieu, easyLab Director, reflected: "We have been looking into offering a gasket driller to our customers for some time, but we wanted to make sure that we would bring to market a real step forward when compared to existing products.  We are more than confident that the Boehler μDriller is exactly what we wanted.   Holes of very high accuracy can be drilled in any type of conductive gaskets, even in the hardest metallic gaskets, in just a couple of minutes without any trade-offs for the experiment.  By using the Boehler μDriller one solves all the experimental problems associated with poorly drilled and sub-standard holes in gaskets, such as, no pressure increase and catastrophic gasket failures, which in turn can lead to the breaking of diamond anvils, saving you time and a great deal of trouble."

Dr Troeger, Technology Manager from Max Planck Innovation, said "It is a great thing that the Max Planck Society having a focus on basic science contributes also to the technical progress."

Dr Boehler, the developer of the Boehler μDriller, added '"I am quite happy to see that my colleagues and everybody who is interested can now benefit from the μDriller developed in our laboratory."


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